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Top Cow announced at Wizard World Chicago that they had an agreement with Gonzo Digimation whereby Gonzo will produce a 26-episode TV series based on the Witchblade property. Top Cow also has an agreement with Kodansha for a manga adaptation of the Witchblade anime. The manga and anime will be released in a "coordinated launch."

The Gonzo anime would replace Sara Pezzini with a Japanese policewoman.

Top Cow will publish the manga in the United States.

The Witchblade property currently includes a series of comics books from Top Cow, a canceled TV series staring Yancy Butler, and merchandise from Palisades.

Last year Top Cow began a push to get Witchblade animated with a series of "Witchblade: Animated" products, including a new comic book writen by Paul Dini and a series of Withcblade: Animated merchandise from Palisades. The only thing missing was an actual animattion. The Witchblade: Animated series features more cartoonish characters designs than the original comic book. Around the same time that Witchblade: Animated was released in 2003, Top Cow editor in Chief Jim McLauchlin did state that they were seeking opportunities to have the series truly animated.

I was a big fan of the tv series, the main character tho she was alcoholic and i think that's also partly why it was cancelled after season 2 :/, if it's done properly an anime of this would be very cool.

Hey everyone is ALWAYS complaining when an US company changes the japanese names of the characters.

Why isn't there an outrage here?

Maybe because when the Japanese get their hands on foreign created material it usually comes out better?

But this is Gonzo digi doing the work, if there is ever a company capable of going in 2 opposite directions at the same time for a product then they are it >_< Middle ground doesn't exist for them, they either make crap or knock it right out of the park.

nice sig...but did you ask permission the studio to use their promotional art ??? I believe that you have to ask permission first. I wouldnt put coca coca sig without asking permission first ??!

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Originally Posted by Rikichi

Top Cow announced at Wizard World Chicago that they had an agreement with Gonzo Digimation whereby Gonzo will produce a 26-episode TV series based on the Witchblade property. Top Cow also has an agreement with Kodansha for a manga adaptation of the Witchblade anime. The manga and anime will be released in a "coordinated launch."

The Gonzo anime would replace Sara Pezzini with a Japanese policewoman.

Top Cow will publish the manga in the United States.

The Witchblade property currently includes a series of comics books from Top Cow, a canceled TV series staring Yancy Butler, and merchandise from Palisades.

Last year Top Cow began a push to get Witchblade animated with a series of "Witchblade: Animated" products, including a new comic book writen by Paul Dini and a series of Withcblade: Animated merchandise from Palisades. The only thing missing was an actual animattion. The Witchblade: Animated series features more cartoonish characters designs than the original comic book. Around the same time that Witchblade: Animated was released in 2003, Top Cow editor in Chief Jim McLauchlin did state that they were seeking opportunities to have the series truly animated.

Dude, all I gotta say is "WTF?? You're kidding, right?" Seriously though, this might sound like a good idea, but if I remember the Witchblade show, this kinda wouldn't translate well into anime. At least not that I'm aware of. But we'll see. I've been surprised before.

Dude, all I gotta say is "WTF?? You're kidding, right?" Seriously though, this might sound like a good idea, but if I remember the Witchblade show, this kinda wouldn't translate well into anime. At least not that I'm aware of. But we'll see. I've been surprised before.

The Witchblade comic was very much like a manga already. Similar to Spawn and other such 'dark' comics.

As a fan of the Witchblade comic (one of my fave North American comics), I am very dissapointed at GONZO's choice to change the main character. As far as I am concerned, it just wouldn't be Witchblade without Sara Pezzini.

What's with Gonzo lately, this will now mean that three of their most recent animes were #1)Adapted From a 50 year old cinema masterpiece(Samurai 7 from Shichinin no Samurai) #2)Adapted from a 19th century novel(Gakutsuou from Count of Monte Cristo) and #3)Adapted from an American Comic Book(Witchblade)

What's with Gonzo lately, this will now mean that three of their most recent animes were #1)Adapted From a 50 year old cinema masterpiece(Samurai 7 from Shichinin no Samurai) #2)Adapted from a 19th century novel(Gakutsuou from Count of Monte Cristo) and #3)Adapted from an American Comic Book(Witchblade)

Eh? I though that GD was infamous for inflicting onto the public some of the most parody filled and shamelessly cliched/exploitative titles on the planet. Only Gainax can top what they've done but I think the race has been pretty close of late . Looks to be a busy year ahead since they've announced 6 titles so far in production. That includes Hellboy, Spirit, Trinity blood and that odd Basillisk title. Only Spirit looks to be an original work.

This anime could likely be non-canonical to the comic book because the story, taking place in present-day Japan, features a Japanese protagonic that is not Itagaki (one among the previous WitchBlade wielders). Because of this, many devoted fans of the comic book have raged their contempt seeing the anime as a blatant niponisation of the comic book.

The anime features the character of Masane, a somewhat clumsy young woman who has no recollection of her past prior to any date before the year 2000.This type of plot device has been recently used on the character of Saya in Blood+.
It is the year 2006, the time on which Masane will accidentally come into contact with the Witchblade and find herself being prey of the NSWF (National Science and Welfare Foundation).

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It maybe Gonzo and it has Stellvia's character designer, I'm still undecided about this one. I've never been a fan of the original comic, but that fact it's set in Japan with Japanese characters is a bonus. And that costume should look good animated...